Squaresoft *did* re-release the older Final Fantasy games with updated graphics (somewhat) and translations on the PlayStation... check out Final Fantasy Anthology, Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Origins. And Fire Emblem's got a well-recieved GBA incarnation in the US now.
it sounds kind of stupid, but has anyone actually just plain *asked* Nintendo what their stance on alternative OSes on the Cube is? They'd probably prefer a "proper" method to the PSO exploit, which can also be used to run bootleg games... and their past actions haven't struck me as quite so draconian as those of, say, Microsoft.
That said, of course, if they revealed the information required to burn Linux discs, it wouldn't be long before someone used the technique to burn bootlegs:( .
Yes, it will run Linux... on their site, they list the supported OSes, which include Linux, as well as Palm OS, Windows CE, and Symbian OS.
On an aside, a point I wanted to make about the 128MB of memory announced for this device - I'm guessing that this may be for storing downloaded games, much like the iQue that Nintendo's released in China... 128MB is definitely overkill for handheld games as RAM (the PSP is only set to have 32MB), but as flash or similar it could store several GBA-sized or N64-sized games on it.
Actually no. This came up on the Megatokyo forums as well, but then somebody pointed out the the drawings had spots for the artist's name as well. Both were done by one Dean Wootten. Here's a link to the thread.
If you found Animal Crossing addictive, then take my advice: don't play the new Harvest Moon game for the 'Cube when it comes out. Imagine Animal Crossing's crack, plus several varieties of heroin involving everything from... erm, milking cows to getting married.
But with every jump in order of magnitude, the discrepancy between the two grows greater - from 2.4% on the level of a single KiB to 10% now on the level of TiB. 100GiB isn't small, it's five times as much as the space of the hard drive that I'm writing on. For $1,200 it *is* a big deal.
WTF is with the OT mod? The idea here is that if the GIMP is installed on machines in, say, a computer lab setting, if the lab admin doesn't want users to counterfeit bills with the lab's software, said admin can make sure that it's not possible. Without something to stop ordinary users from disabling the plugin, though, it's pretty pointless.
they define terabyte as 10^12 bytes, when OSes will often define it as 2^40. This thing's probably actually 99.5GiB less than advertised (2^40-10^12 = 9,95*10^10 bytes). I wish advertisers would use the MiB, GiB, and TiB notations for storage space - it would make shopping for hard drives a bit more honest...
but really, come on, calling it "the biggest milestone in videogame history" is going a bit far, don't you think? There were *tons* of other first person shooters before it, and most (if not all) of the gameplay elements in Halo had been done before. It was very much an evolutionary game (as evidenced by its subtitle - "Combat Evolved") rather than a revolutionary game. That's not a bad thing, but there are games out there much more worthy of being called "milestones."
But then there would be even *more* copies of the music, multiplying their original problem (because unless they're CD-Rs, the original WMAs on the CD will exist). At least two of those three copies would need royalties (in the eyes of the labels). Also, the RIAA must be more than a little wary about doing anything that encourages creating a new copy of a piece of music...
Not likely... you usually don't put a backup on the *same piece of media* as the original copy, because then if the original fails (through scratches to the disk, etc.) so does the "backup". It just goes against the definition of backups - I don't think even the RIAA's army of undead lawyers could twist it enough to get that through.
One of the hinges on my Sony laptop (a PCG-FXA63) is busted. Sony has an all-or-nothing repair deal - if I wanted it fixed, I'd have to pay $700 to fix things like the hard drive and the CD drive as well (which work just fine). Not to mention I'd have to ship the d**n thing to California, which is the nearest service center (I live in Maine). I'm going to pay much more careful attention to repair plans in the future when I buy laptops...
but when I was a kid, I remember having much more fun with K'Nex than with legos. K'Nex constructions were larger (some could take up the better part of a room, which kids find tremendously cool), more permanent, and they could have some really neat moving parts (Lego Technix notwithstanding). I played much more with my Big Ball Factory than with the Lego models that I had.
This reminds me strongly of the whole problem with hard drive sizes (manufacturers define GB as 1 billion bytes, but OSes use 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes). That's not quite so blatant (they do disclaim below the size they use to measure GB), but still... I was rather POed when I first bought a laptop and found that its drive was almost 1.5GB less than advertised, by the OS' definition of GB.
They might try compressing the images - an image with a large amount of non-random text hidden within it should compress somewhat more than a standard compressed image.
Yup. I work at a Boy Scout camp during the summer (Camp William Hinds), and at least half of the staff is the biggest group of computer/anime/gaming geeks you can imagine. One of the guys there has quite literally over four hundred VHS tapes of fansubbed anime; I can also remember incidents such as putting together "new" computers for the camp from the scavenged parts of older machines. Fun times.
WinMX is still widely in use (particularly in Asian countries like Japan), but IIRC it's been out of development for a looong time... I'd put my money more on clients like Shareaza that are adless, like WinMX, and combine multiple protocols (BT, EDonkey, Gnutella, and Gnutella2).
Looks to me like the photo's been patched together from several smaller photos, and a few of them are missing - there are three missing chunks in the lower left corner, of regular size.
No. The good people of Slashdot simply wouldn't buy/download the game. And, of course, before long there'd be a crack or mod for said game to replace all incidences of Linux with Microsoft products:).
Upon visiting Sony's support site recently, they had an alert out for just this sort of problem - but they claimed that it would only happen with third-party batteries, not the much more expensive Sony certified batteries. FUD, or is there a real difference between the two types that makes the third-party batteries more dangerous?
He's not expecting *all* input devices to change - he's just trying to make an alternative for those who can't use the standard variety, which is a fairly good cause, to my mind. He's also certainly not suggesting that everyone should play games one-handed; he just happens to be in that unusual situation himself and wants to find a workaround, so to speak. Show a little more sensitivity towards the handicapped in the future.
Something like this was actually tested with a large group of English schoolchildren, I believe; it made a small blip on the Richter scale, but certainly nothing noticable. Fun, but as the StraightDope article says, fairly silly and pointless, as the effects can be estimated fairly easily with some physics.
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Squaresoft *did* re-release the older Final Fantasy games with updated graphics (somewhat) and translations on the PlayStation... check out Final Fantasy Anthology, Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Origins. And Fire Emblem's got a well-recieved GBA incarnation in the US now.
That said, of course, if they revealed the information required to burn Linux discs, it wouldn't be long before someone used the technique to burn bootlegs :( .
On an aside, a point I wanted to make about the 128MB of memory announced for this device - I'm guessing that this may be for storing downloaded games, much like the iQue that Nintendo's released in China... 128MB is definitely overkill for handheld games as RAM (the PSP is only set to have 32MB), but as flash or similar it could store several GBA-sized or N64-sized games on it.
Actually no. This came up on the Megatokyo forums as well, but then somebody pointed out the the drawings had spots for the artist's name as well. Both were done by one Dean Wootten. Here's a link to the thread.
If you found Animal Crossing addictive, then take my advice: don't play the new Harvest Moon game for the 'Cube when it comes out. Imagine Animal Crossing's crack, plus several varieties of heroin involving everything from... erm, milking cows to getting married.
But with every jump in order of magnitude, the discrepancy between the two grows greater - from 2.4% on the level of a single KiB to 10% now on the level of TiB. 100GiB isn't small, it's five times as much as the space of the hard drive that I'm writing on. For $1,200 it *is* a big deal.
WTF is with the OT mod? The idea here is that if the GIMP is installed on machines in, say, a computer lab setting, if the lab admin doesn't want users to counterfeit bills with the lab's software, said admin can make sure that it's not possible. Without something to stop ordinary users from disabling the plugin, though, it's pretty pointless.
HD pr0n.
(or is that three? stupid acronyms)
they define terabyte as 10^12 bytes, when OSes will often define it as 2^40. This thing's probably actually 99.5GiB less than advertised (2^40-10^12 = 9,95*10^10 bytes). I wish advertisers would use the MiB, GiB, and TiB notations for storage space - it would make shopping for hard drives a bit more honest...
It's fairly pointless unless it can be made password-protected (so that other users can't disable it). Does anyone know whether that's the case?
but really, come on, calling it "the biggest milestone in videogame history" is going a bit far, don't you think? There were *tons* of other first person shooters before it, and most (if not all) of the gameplay elements in Halo had been done before. It was very much an evolutionary game (as evidenced by its subtitle - "Combat Evolved") rather than a revolutionary game. That's not a bad thing, but there are games out there much more worthy of being called "milestones."
But then there would be even *more* copies of the music, multiplying their original problem (because unless they're CD-Rs, the original WMAs on the CD will exist). At least two of those three copies would need royalties (in the eyes of the labels). Also, the RIAA must be more than a little wary about doing anything that encourages creating a new copy of a piece of music...
Not likely... you usually don't put a backup on the *same piece of media* as the original copy, because then if the original fails (through scratches to the disk, etc.) so does the "backup". It just goes against the definition of backups - I don't think even the RIAA's army of undead lawyers could twist it enough to get that through.
One of the hinges on my Sony laptop (a PCG-FXA63) is busted. Sony has an all-or-nothing repair deal - if I wanted it fixed, I'd have to pay $700 to fix things like the hard drive and the CD drive as well (which work just fine). Not to mention I'd have to ship the d**n thing to California, which is the nearest service center (I live in Maine). I'm going to pay much more careful attention to repair plans in the future when I buy laptops...
but when I was a kid, I remember having much more fun with K'Nex than with legos. K'Nex constructions were larger (some could take up the better part of a room, which kids find tremendously cool), more permanent, and they could have some really neat moving parts (Lego Technix notwithstanding). I played much more with my Big Ball Factory than with the Lego models that I had.
This reminds me strongly of the whole problem with hard drive sizes (manufacturers define GB as 1 billion bytes, but OSes use 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes). That's not quite so blatant (they do disclaim below the size they use to measure GB), but still... I was rather POed when I first bought a laptop and found that its drive was almost 1.5GB less than advertised, by the OS' definition of GB.
They might try compressing the images - an image with a large amount of non-random text hidden within it should compress somewhat more than a standard compressed image.
You'll have to talk to Corel, as they're the ones that own it now (they're on version 11 currently).
Yup. I work at a Boy Scout camp during the summer (Camp William Hinds), and at least half of the staff is the biggest group of computer/anime/gaming geeks you can imagine. One of the guys there has quite literally over four hundred VHS tapes of fansubbed anime; I can also remember incidents such as putting together "new" computers for the camp from the scavenged parts of older machines. Fun times.
WinMX is still widely in use (particularly in Asian countries like Japan), but IIRC it's been out of development for a looong time... I'd put my money more on clients like Shareaza that are adless, like WinMX, and combine multiple protocols (BT, EDonkey, Gnutella, and Gnutella2).
Looks to me like the photo's been patched together from several smaller photos, and a few of them are missing - there are three missing chunks in the lower left corner, of regular size.
No. The good people of Slashdot simply wouldn't buy/download the game. And, of course, before long there'd be a crack or mod for said game to replace all incidences of Linux with Microsoft products :).
Upon visiting Sony's support site recently, they had an alert out for just this sort of problem - but they claimed that it would only happen with third-party batteries, not the much more expensive Sony certified batteries. FUD, or is there a real difference between the two types that makes the third-party batteries more dangerous?
He's not expecting *all* input devices to change - he's just trying to make an alternative for those who can't use the standard variety, which is a fairly good cause, to my mind. He's also certainly not suggesting that everyone should play games one-handed; he just happens to be in that unusual situation himself and wants to find a workaround, so to speak. Show a little more sensitivity towards the handicapped in the future.
Something like this was actually tested with a large group of English schoolchildren, I believe; it made a small blip on the Richter scale, but certainly nothing noticable. Fun, but as the StraightDope article says, fairly silly and pointless, as the effects can be estimated fairly easily with some physics.